Founders and Major Benefactors of Carnegie Mellon University
- Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist that founded and endowed the university as the Carnegie Technical Schools in 1900
- David Tepper, billionaire Wall Street hedge fund manager whose gift renamed the Graduate School of Industrial Administration to the Tepper School of Business
- Teresa Heinz, and the Heinz family, heirs to the Heinz Company and political family who renamed the School of Urban and Public Affairs to the Heinz College
- William S. Dietrich II, steel industrialist whose gift prompted the renaming of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to the Dietrich College
The Mellon Family of Pittsburgh:
- Andrew W. Mellon, United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932; co-founded the Mellon Institute of Research in 1913
- Richard B. Mellon, president of Mellon Bank who co-founded the Mellon Institute of Research in 1913
- William Larimer Mellon, Sr., founder of Gulf Oil and the Graduate School of Industrial Administration
- Richard King Mellon, known for his urban renewal program in Pittsburgh and the founder of the School of Urban and Public Affairs
- Paul Mellon, noted philanthropist and horse breeder and facilitator of the merger between the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute to form Carnegie Mellon University.
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